Mount for hooks and eyes.



H. U. GOODRIGH.

MOUNT FOB HOOKS AND EYES. I APPLICATION IILBD Jun. 22,1908.

' Patented Sept. 29, 1908.

Z". .dz 'z. amw

H}: NORRIS PETERS m, \nsmufm'm. M

HARRY C. GOODRICH, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

MOUNT FOR HOOKS AND EYES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 29, 1908.

Application filed Tune 22, 1908. Serial No. 439,829.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY C. Gooonron, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mounts for Hooks and Eyes; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1 a plan view of a mount for hooks and eyes showing several hooks and eyes in place. Fig. 2 a broken sectional view of a portion of the plate sh owing one of the flanges turned inward. Fig. 3 a sectional view on the line c-d of Fig. 1.

This invention relates to an improvement in mounts for hooks and eyes. As usually mounted for the market hooks andeyes are sewed to cards, and while automatic machinery has been devised for sewing these hooks and eyes to the cards, it is a somewhat expensive operation.

The object of this invention is to provide a metal plate with flanges adapted to be folded over onto the hooks and eyes so as to secure them to the plate; and the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

As shown I employ a plate 2 of thin sheet metal and turn the side edges inwardto form flanges 3, 4, the space between the flanges and the face of the plate forming open pockets. The hooks and eyes which are of usual construction, have the attaching portions inserted beneath these flanges. Thus the loops or rings 5 of the eyes 6 are insertedbeneath the flanges 3 and the rings or eyes 7 of the hooks 8 are inserted beneath the flanges' l.

These flanges 3 and 4 are then closed down and dented over the rings or eyes 5 and 7 so as to interlock the hooks and eyes in place. If the so called, invisible eyes are employed, one end 9 of the invisible eye 10 is inserted beneath one of the flanges which is closed down and dented in the way just described. Thus various forms of hooks and eyes may be attached in the same way. These hooks and eyes may be fed to the plate automatically and the folding and indenting of the flange is also done. by machinery so that the entire process of mounting the hooks and eyes is done automatically.

The metal from which the plate is formed may be of very light metal as the turning inward of the edges strengthens the plate and prevents its bending. This plate by being very thin is very little heavier than the cards now employed and like the cards may have advertising matter printed upon them.

I claim 1. A mount for hooks and eyes consisting of a strip of thin metal having an inturned and indented flange on the edge, furnishing an interlocking groove for retaining hooks and eyes, substantially as described.

2. A mount for hooks and eyes consisting of a strip of thin metal having an inturned and indented flange on the edge furnishing an 0 en retaining groove in combination with ooks and eyes held and retained on the mount by the flange, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARRY C. GCODRICI-I.

Witnesses:

FREDERIC C. EARLE, CLARA L. WEED. 

